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Syncing your servers to public time servers is one of the most common ways of keeping server times in sync. Apparently the less common approach of configuring one server to sync with public servers and it in turn becomes the authoritative time keeper for the rest of your servers is less well-known. Digging through the copious ntp documentation, I have to say, its some very, very dense documentation mainly because the jargon isn't well translated to a layperson's "How do I?" inquiry. I combed the documentation for days trying to figure out exactly how to set up a server to hand out time to all my other servers. Normally, my Google-fu can pierce just about any need, but "time" "server" "local" and so on are all too common terms in both client-and-server and client-only configurations and by far and away,…
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